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Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Victor Boyhan: I withdraw the amendment.

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 3: 3. In page 9, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: “Report on role of the Sage Advocacy 7. Within nine months of the commencement of this Act, the Minister shall, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas on how the Sage Advocacy can be supported, and resourced to assist individual survivors to access supports and provisions listed in...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Victor Boyhan: Amendment No. 3 seeks to create a new section after section 6, which is entitled "Educational service support for former residents" in Part 2, which is entitled "Supports". This is a repeat of what we just had. I engaged with the Minister on this issue. I will also speak about amendment No. 4 before I read into the record some correspondence from the Minister. Amendment No. 4 reads: "In...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Victor Boyhan: There are two issues and two amendments. I will talk about the first one. The Minister sent the letter. That is on the record of the House. I will circulate it to all the Members later. She makes a valid point about Sage. Could she engage actively with Sage to promote the service? We should at least have a report from the Minister's office once a year on Sage, provided to the...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 4: In page 9, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: “Supports for the excluded 7. (1) Advocacy groups approved by the Minister shall be able to make recommendations to the Minister so that health services and education supports can be allocated to former residents who’ve been excluded from this Bill and previous redress schemes. The...

Seanad: Disability (Personalised Budgets) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 1: To delete “18 months” and substitute “6 months”. I thank the Minister of State for giving us her time. She is at a disadvantage when she comes in halfway through a debate but that is not her fault. I have no doubt she has a good grasp of the legislation and that she may have been looking in from the ante room. It...

Seanad: Disability (Personalised Budgets) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Victor Boyhan: We are going to share time.

Seanad: Disability (Personalised Budgets) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Victor Boyhan: Okay. It is good to have that business out of the way. At the outset, what can I say about Senator Tom Clonan? He is an amazing advocate. What we have seen here today is the lived experience, the man and the family that have lived with that experience of disability. I commend him. It has been a funny day for us in terms of care generally, given the earlier legislation. On the one...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Fire Service (1 Jul 2025)

Victor Boyhan: As a vote has been called in Dáil Éireann, I ask Senator Duffy to propose we suspend for the duration.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Fire Service (1 Jul 2025)

Victor Boyhan: It is agreed.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Water Supply (1 Jul 2025)

Victor Boyhan: Thank you, Minister of State, for your time. We appreciate your coming to the House. We always value Ministers coming in.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Water Supply (1 Jul 2025)

Victor Boyhan: You are an honorary Senator at this point.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Water Supply (1 Jul 2025)

Victor Boyhan: As there is a vote ongoing in the other House, we will have to wait for the next Minister of State to arrive . He is on his way, I understand. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Michael Healy-Rae, to the Seanad. I know he is an exceptionally busy man and there was a vote in the Dáil so we understand he was delayed. We appreciate him coming to the House.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: EU Funding (1 Jul 2025)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome all our guests to the Gallery. I would particularly like to welcome John French and his guests. John works in the Houses and is held in high esteem among us here.I also welcome the men’s shed from Navan and our guests from Carolina, USA. They are all very welcome. This is the section where we deal with Commencement matters, which is individual Senators who flag particular...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: EU Funding (1 Jul 2025)

Victor Boyhan: The Minister of State has one minute to respond.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: EU Funding (1 Jul 2025)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Minister of State for his time and for coming to the House this afternoon. I take this opportunity to welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Grealish, and his colleagues, friends and visitors from Carnmore and Claregalway to the House. They are very welcome and I hope they enjoy their stay here today.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Services (1 Jul 2025)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Jennifer Murnane O’Connor.

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (1 Jul 2025)

Victor Boyhan: Volume.

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Jul 2025)

Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 8: In page 12, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: “Report on adequacy and constituency of supports provided by the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board 16. (1) The Minister shall, not later than 9 months after the commencement of this Act prepare and lay before each House of the Oireachtas a report on the evaluation of the Residential...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Jul 2025)

Victor Boyhan: No. It is my understanding we more or less dealt with it last time. I wish to press the amendment.